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Claim was that 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is protected by Indigenous peoples.
But scientists investigated its origins and found nothing resembling an actual calculation.
The claim is based on two assumptions: that biodiversity can be divided into countable units and that these can be mapped spatially at the global level.
Biodiversity as a concept is still hard to define and count.
After being approached by the Guardian about the veracity of historical elephant data, Our World in Data removed the numbers.
Despite the importance of robust data in environmental crises, calling out bad statistics is sometimes seen as an attack on conservation itself.
The Nature article about the 80% was in the making for five years , one of the authors says, because the topic is so sensitive and could be abused politically.
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